Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has been released from a San Francisco hospital after recovering from surgery to repair a skull fracture and injuries to his hand and arm, according to a source familiar with the matter. https://t.co/sLXztU48u1
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) November 3, 2022
The Pelosi family is thankful for the beautiful outpouring of love, support and prayers from around the world.
Paul remains under doctors’ care as he continues to progress on a long recovery process and convalescence. He is now home surrounded by his family who request privacy.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) November 3, 2022
This tweet may well have been written from the bedside of her husband, who has been in ICU for days now, recovering from grievous injuries inflicted in an assassination attempt directed toward her. Nancy Pelosi is so steady and strong. She's a damn hero. https://t.co/3JpV9QCTMV
— Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) November 2, 2022
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bbleh
I realize that it is uncharitable and perhaps unfair of me, but I hope Nancy decides after this — and especially after the Republican reactions to it — that her big bag of fks to give is plumb empty and it’s time to take the gloves off.
Nancy Smash!
Baud
Seconded.
Martin
Am I the only one who sees clips of Kash Patel and can only see Tom from Parks and Rec? I know that comes off as super racist (and I’m not saying it’s not), but it’s the constant in-the-moment hustle this guy seems to be on that triggers it for me.
japa21
@Baud: Personally, I think that is an understatement, but I can’t find the words that would actually express the whys and wherefores of my admiration for her.
rikyrah
@Baud:
Thirded.
Nancy Smash👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
rikyrah
Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) tweeted at 3:14 PM on Thu, Nov 03, 2022:
CNN ends Jake Tapper’s prime time experiment, CNBC cancels Shepard Smith, MSNBC cancels Chuck Todd, all due to low ratings. NewsNation has flopped. The media keeps shoving “both sides are the same” bullshit down everyone’s throat, but no one’s watching. We want the truth instead!
(twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1588263425867587584?s=02)
Baud
@rikyrah:
Wait, what now? This is the first I’m hearing of this.
Alison Rose
I was so glad to see this earlier. The tweet from the Speaker’s account is perfect, and I only wish there was a follow-up saying “And Nonna says FUCK ALL Y’ALL to the right wing ghouls who saw fit to make a joke out of this.” I mean, I know she wouldn’t use the f word, after hearing her say poo-poo instead of shit, but one can dream.
kalakal
@rikyrah: Chuckles cancelled? Oh please
schrodingers_cat
@kalakal: I love his black Twitter nickname. Shamble-bangs
Jackie
@rikyrah: Is Todd removed from his daily streaming program AND Sunday’s MTP???
I would put Shepard Smith in. I always liked him. (I know he got fired from CNBC – but I always thought that was the wrong spot for him.)
Scout211
A quick search tells me that Chuck Todd’s daily show was moved to the NBC news streaming service in June. So he wasn’t canceled, he was just moved to the kids’ table.
Steeplejack
Palmer Report is kind of a ready-fire-aim source. Maybe they are referring to Chuck Todd getting pulled from the evening lineup several months ago.
Cameron
@bbleh: I think she’s been headed there (if she’s not there already) since 1/6.
Anoniminous
Some people say Jake Tapper, Shepard Smith, and Chuck Todd were incompetent assholes who would out of their depth if they were on the Public Access Channel’s evening news in RedneckHicksville Alabama.
Other people say they were merely corrupt assholes who sold their credibility decades ago.
Some say one thing, some say another. Impossible to tell, really.
dmsilev
It’s been quite the week. Quite the last five weeks, really. Monday morning at about 5:30 I wake up to a text from my dad saying that my uncle is in hospice and is expected to last hours not days. By 6:00 I have a plane ticket to Boston, am packed, and am waiting for a cab to the airport. That was Monday; he’s still with us, slowly fading. It’s been hard. Especial shout-out to his girlfriend for successfully completing a 100%-achievements Kubler-Ross speed run in roughly one day; that was real fun to be part of.
Bleargh. All of us, most definitely including my uncle, are ready for this to be over.
CaseyL
@Baud: The shows that have been cancelled weren’t the network versions, just the streaming versions. Chuck Todd unfortunately still has his main MTP gig.
Redshift
That reminds me – we all gripe about political coverage being nothing but house race and who’s “winning,” instead of informing people about the issues and what positions politicians hold, and what ones they won’t confirm or deny.
So is there any outlet that’s actually doing that? If there is, I’d like to be supporting it.
Suzanne
@dmsilev: Many hugs. Last days are so hard.
schrodingers_cat
@dmsilev: {{}} I will keep you and your family in my thoughts.
dmsilev
@Suzanne: Thank you.
We’re keeping ourselves at least vaguely functional, grading on a gentle curve, so that’s something. I guess.
dmsilev
@schrodingers_cat: Thank you.
Kay
Remember when they all called Chuck Todd “the numbers guy” because he could add? Just adding. Not even subtraction.
Dan B
@dmsilev: My condolences to you and your family.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: Their bar for math proficiency is quite low. Even percentages are hard for these no good Republican courtiers of the MSM.
dmsilev
@Dan B: Thanks.
dmsilev
@Kay: In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Same thing with innumeracy.
different-church-lady
@rikyrah: I was working in a hotel in downtown Boston this week. On each floor, outside the elevator banks, there were two TV screens. One had Fox News, and the other had CNN — as though somehow these two things balanced each other out.
FelonyGovt
@dmsilev: Thinking of you and your family. This is so tough.
RaflW
@dmsilev: So sorry for all your family is going through.
You may not feel at all up for this, but I offer it as an option. My partner, a Humanist Unitarian Universalist minister, just gave a talk last week* heading into All Hallow’s Eve, Day of the Dead, All Saints, etc, on grief. The crux: Don’t let America’s urge to speed you though the stages be the yardstick.
Taking time to be present, as you are, and observing the rituals and unfoldings have long histories because it really actually helps.
*His talk is queued up, at 31.30. Lasts about 18 mins.
geg6
@Kay:
Anybody who didn’t know that some college dropout dude that Tim Fucking Russert promoted would be a hack is an idiot. Which explains why he’s lasted this long. Haven’t watched anything he appears on in more than a decade. I may not be a genius but I’m not an idiot.
zhena gogolia
@dmsilev:
I’m very sorry about your uncle. I will say that this
actually brought vivid memories to mind and brought a smile to my lips. I hope you all find peace.
different-church-lady
On top of everything else, I can not describe how utterly fucking depressing it is that someone could attack an octogenarian with a hammer and half the people who run our country think its cute.
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady: Or come up with nasty rumors about how it happened and how he is to blame.
Kay
@geg6:
I don’t know why he’s famous. And this is a perfect nickname and is making me laugh:
schrodingers_cat
@kalakal: I love his black Twitter nickname. Shamble-bangs.
FelonyGovt
Trying really hard to avoid all “news”. The “Dems are PANICKING!!!” storylines are all over and it’s raising my blood pressure.
And I echo what @different-church-lady: said- how awful that people think it’s funny, fitting or whatever that an 80+ year old man had his skull shattered with a hammer. WTF is wrong with people.
Suzanne
@dmsilev:
So my grandfather had this friend of his who was hilarious. He would sign letters, end phone calls, etc. by saying “stay vertical”. The older I get, the more I realize that, some days, it is the best I can muster. So “vaguely functional” is great. Cut y’allsself some slack.
Suzanne
@different-church-lady:
They really do want to kill us all.
dmsilev
@RaflW: , @zhena gogolia:
Thanks. Being there standing vigil as it were does help. We’re Jewish, and the tradition of sitting shiva after the funeral is another thing which I’ve found in the past to be very cathartic and expect that it will be so this time round as well.
FelonyGovt
@dmsilev: Sitting shiva is definitely helpful.
Kay
2014:
A “data wizard”! A “number cruncher”!
LITERALLY added up columns of numbers for several years. “Carry the one…”
sab
@Kay: That’s not even math. It’s arithmetic.
ETA I often wonder if these guys can balance their own checkbooks.
Alison Rose
@dmsilev: Sending love your way.
laura
@dmsilev: im sending you all the strength and compassion you need to help your dad through this loss of his brother. It is hard and trying and it is sacred work.
kalakal
@schrodingers_cat: Hah! Excellent.
randy khan
Nancy Pelosi is a treasure. It’s a travesty that she and her husband have to go through this.
persistentillusion
@dmsilev: So sorry that you are experiencing this. Hugs, or handshakes, or whatever might be of comfort. End of life sucks from any perspective.
RaflW
Reading Tom Nichols this evening on Biden’s Union Station speech. It’s a good, if glum, piece (not doomy, but glum). In it Tom says “Presidents, unlike the occupants of lesser offices, must speak to the American people like they are adults capable of thinking about many things at one time, including foreign policy, crime, inflation—and the state of our democracy.”
And all I can think about is that while he is right, he misses that most journalists now don’t even act as if they are adults capable of thinking about many things at one time. It’s truly tragic how reporters and editors have let themselves stoop to the lowest denominator, and think it’s savvy.
dmsilev
@laura: My mom’s brother actually, but he and my dad were very close. Thank you for the kind thoughts.
Urban Suburbanite
The reporting on the attack has revealed that police had a bunch of cameras on the Pelosi’s house, but there was no one actually watching them. Which seems apt for our present dystopia.
There was also a big fuckup with police in this state, where four teenage suspects in a carjacking were released after their bail hearing, because the officer never said anything about why bail should be increased or denied – like, say, a violent crime and a criminal record. So it’s the fault of the woke left judge and prosecutors for police fucking up like this.
Ksmiami
@Suzanne: forewarned Is forearmed
Suzanne
@Ksmiami: Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Suzanne: ah, math.
Alexander, The Great General, Had An Infinite Number Of Arms
I first saw this one in a Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown.
Benw
@dmsilev: yeah, you and yours have my thoughts
Ruckus
@Urban Suburbanite:
It was the Capital Police as their main job is to watch Nancy and she was in DC. The cameras are there for when she is home. Now I don’t see some reason that they might not at least check every so often just to make sure some asswipe hasn’t broken into the house to wait for Nancy. But it was his call to the police and their notification of the Capital Police that a break in had happened. And the local and Capital police showed up because there is a west coast office of the Capital police in SF. At least that’s as I understand it.
The immediate reporting did not seem clear on the happenings but that above is as I recall reading about it a couple days later after the more nuanced story came out.
Ruckus
@Kay:
Chuck Todd can not add.
2+2 does not = bullshit.
And he seems to think it does.
Qrop Non Sequitur
No need. That’s why god made Bank apps.